Quotes from Literature.

How well read or you? Here are some famous quotes from some of the greatest authors in history.

1

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Dirk Gently

Douglas Adams

Stephen Wright

Bill Murray

Dave Barry

2

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; every thing else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

Erica Jung

James Joyce

John Lennon

William Shakespeare

John Keats

3

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'

Albert Einstein

Isaac Asimov

Dave Barry

Michael Creichton

Carl Sagan

4

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

L. Frank Baum

C. S. Lewis

Stephen King

Norton Juster

Ray Bradberry

5

The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Dean R. Koontz

Dave Barry

Louis L'Amour

Stephen King

Douglas Adams

6

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

D. H. Lawrence

Francis Bacon

C. S. Lewis

Erica Jong

Jack Kerouc

7

All I ask of a woman is that she should feel gently towards me.
when my heart feels kindly towards her,
and there should be the soft, soft tremor as of unheard bells
between us.
It is all I ask.
I am so tired of violent women lashing out and insisting on being loved, when there is no love in them.

Samuel Johnson

John Keats

D. H. Lawrence

Nelson Algren

Don Marquis

8

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Dave Barry

Stephen King

Henry Ford

Don Marquis

Douglas Adams

9

The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress.

Henry Ford

Arther Miller

Robert Browning

Luc Besson

Thomas Jefferson

10

The different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

Douglas Adams

C. S. Lewis

Dave Barry

Tom Jones

Lewis Carroll

11

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

John Mortimer

John Milton

Anais Nin

A. A. Milne

12

It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible. When this happens, the most well-informed men become blinded by their prejudices and are unable to see what lies directly ahead of them.

Michael Creichton

Arthur C. Clark

Ray Bradberry

Ayn Rand

Isaac Asimov

13

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

Arthur C. Clark

Tom Robbins

Michael Moore

George Orwell

Phillip K. Dick

14

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Pablo Picasso

Howard Stern

Dave Barry

Winston Churchill

Stephen King

15

It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.

Terry Brooks

Robert Jordan

Christopher Paolini

Piers Anthony

Terru Pratchet

16

I have great faith in fools. My friends call it self-confidence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Joseph Conrad

Alexander Pope

Charles Dickens

Stephen King

17

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Vicky Baum

Harper Lee

John Keats

Carl Sagan

Rudyard Kipling

18

Gold is for the mistress-- silver for the maid--
Copper for the craftsman, cunning at his trade.
'Good!' said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
'But iron-- cold iron-- is ruler of them all'.

Tim Bates

Alice Bloch

Allison Kraus

John Masefield

Rudyard Kipling

19

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Henry Reed

Phillip K. Dick

Carl Sagan

Carl Sandburg

T. S. Elliot

20

You can't expect a boy to be vicious until he's been to a good school.

George Orwell

Sa'di

Terry Pratchet

Saki

Noel Coward

21

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Anna Sewell

George Bernard Shaw

John Donne

Billy Graham

George Elliot

22

Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

Roger Simon

William Gibson

Phillip K. Dick

Arthur C. Clark

Carl Sagan

23

Nothing to fear in God. Nothing to feel in Death. Good can be obtained. Evil can be endured.

Epicurus

Socrates

Saki

Plato

Sa'di

24

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

H. P. Lovecraft

John Drydan

T. S. Elliot

George Lucas

Henry Winklebaum

25

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

James Thompson

Tom Stoppard

Robert Louis Stevenson

Louis L'Amour

26

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Andre Guild

Leo Tolsty

Sue Grafton

Nathaniel Hawthorne

William Hazlett

27

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Numenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise."

Robert Jordan

Christopher Paolini

Tad Williams

Steven R. Brust

Jhon Ronald Reuel Tolkien

28

Men have two major organs, the brain and the penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

William Butler Yeats

Ernest Hemingway

Eric Idle

Alfred North Whitehead

Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues

29

The best is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire

Walt Whitman

Ernest Hemingway

Wilma Scott Heide

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

30

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.